Review of Refind boot manager (was Re: USB UEFI recovery stick)

2022-03-05 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 09:47:10PM -0500, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager. Like rEFIt, rEFInd can > auto-detect your installed EFI boot loaders and it presents a pretty GUI > menu of boot options. rEFInd goes beyond rEFIt in that rEFInd better >

Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 ian 22, 03:39:47, deloptes wrote: > > Hi all, > is there a way to have a USB UEFI stick that works similar to the Debian > installer - for example to boot into UEFI and recover the boot loader. > One machine here seems a bit older and refuses to boot into UEFI from the > USB - rendering

Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-24 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Jan 2022 at 17:26:13 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 1/24/22 2:55 AM, deloptes wrote: > > I can boot from the CD/DVD into UEFI, but it seems I can not do the same > > from the USB. > > The USB which is UEFI can boot the newer notebook (has secure mode) > > > The question is if it

Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-24 Thread David Christensen
On 1/24/22 2:55 AM, deloptes wrote: Thank you for the response YW. :-) Ah 2011 seems right to match the one that refer to here. I can boot from the CD/DVD into UEFI, but it seems I can not do the same from the USB. The USB which is UEFI can boot the newer notebook (has secure mode) The

Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-24 Thread deloptes
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Hi deloptes, > > It depends very much on the machine. I've just saved a machine that has > 32 bit UEFI implementation and a 64 bit Atom processor. It's an Intel > Baytrail with a small amount of memory [2G] but required the Debian > multi-arch .iso to boot. > > A

Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 11:55:20AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Thank you for the response > > David Christensen wrote: > > > I have a computer with an Intel DQ67SW desktop motherboard (released Q1, > > 2011).  The Setup utility allows me to select BIOS/MBR mode or UEFI/GPT > > mode.  d-i seems to

Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-24 Thread deloptes
Thank you for the response David Christensen wrote: > I have a computer with an Intel DQ67SW desktop motherboard (released Q1, > 2011).  The Setup utility allows me to select BIOS/MBR mode or UEFI/GPT > mode.  d-i seems to detect if the computer is running in BIOS/MBR mode > or in UEFI/GPT mode,

Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-23 Thread David Christensen
On 1/23/22 6:39 PM, deloptes wrote: Hi all, is there a way to have a USB UEFI stick that works similar to the Debian installer - for example to boot into UEFI and recover the boot loader. One machine here seems a bit older and refuses to boot into UEFI from the USB - rendering USB obsolete as

Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-23 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2022-01-23 21:39, deloptes wrote: > > Hi all, > is there a way to have a USB UEFI stick that works similar to the Debian > installer - for example to boot into UEFI and recover the boot loader. > One machine here seems a bit older and refuses to boot into UEFI from the > USB - rendering

USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
Hi all, is there a way to have a USB UEFI stick that works similar to the Debian installer - for example to boot into UEFI and recover the boot loader. One machine here seems a bit older and refuses to boot into UEFI from the USB - rendering USB obsolete as recovery option. In BIOS USB says AUTO